''I Love You Karlsson'' (Swedish: ''Jag älskar dig, Karlsson!'') is a 1947 Swedish

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directed by Lau Lauritzen and John Zacharias and starring

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, Sture Lagerwall and

Olof Winnerstrand Carl Olof Magnus Winnerstrand (26 August 1875 – 16 July 1956) was a Swedish actor. Biography Born in a bourgeois home in Stockholm, Winnerstrand was a son of the well-known Stockholm goldsmith and jeweller C.A. Winnerstrand, and started ...

.Krawc p.315 It was shot at the

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Studios at

Lyngby Kongens Lyngby (, Danish for "the King's Heather Town"; short form Lyngby) is the seat and commercial centre of Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. Lyngby Hovedgade is a busy shopping street and the site ...

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and on location in

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. It was a remake of the 1946 Danish film ''

I Love Another ''I Love Another'' ( da, Jeg elsker en anden) is a 1946 Danish family film directed by Lau Lauritzen Jr. and Alice O'Fredericks. Cast * Ib Schønberg - Onkel Polle * Marguerite Viby - Annelise 'Peter' Petersen * Ebbe Rode - John Eriksen * Erni ...

''.

Synopsis

Marie enjoys working at her nursery but is shocked to discover that the owner of its site has sold the house and the new owner wishes to close the school. She sets out to change the mind of Connie, who just inherited the property, and discovers help from an unexpected direction.

Cast

as Marie Hagberg * Sture Lagerwall as John Sylvander *

as Kalle *

Ib Schønberg Ib Christian Albert von Cotta Schønberg (23 October 1902 – 24 September 1955) was a Danish film actor, and is considered one of the leading actors of Danish film in the 20th century. Early life The son of a chemist, Ib Schønberg was int ...

as Johansen *

Lillebil Kjellén Britta Lillebil Sofia Kjellén, a.k.a. Lillebil Nordrum (December 3, 1921 – March 7, 1994) was a Swedish actress born Drammen, Norway to Swedish parents. She grew up in Stockholm, Sweden, where she attended the Royal Dramatic Training Academy ...

as Connie Schmidt *

Viveca Serlachius Viveca Elisabeth Marianne Serlachius Olsson (2 March 1923 – 9 January 1993) was a Finnish-born Swedish actress, best known as the first actress to play Pippi Longstocking on film, ''Pippi Longstocking'' in 1949, when she was aged 26 portraying ...

as Elsa *

Curt Masreliez Curt Masreliez (19 July 1919 – 21 June 1979) was a Swedish stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1939 and 1973. Masreliez worked at Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern as well as the theatres in Helsi ...

as Torsten *

Astrid Bodin Astrid Bodin (10 July 1903 – 20 October 1961) was a Swedish actress who appeared in over 120 films. Born on 10 July 1903 in Österunda, Sweden, she began her film-acting career with a small role in 1933's ''Djurgårdsnätter'', starring Erik Be ...

as Karin *

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as Daghemsföreståndarinnan *

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as Tora *

Jullan Kindahl Jullan Kindahl (12 April 1885 – 18 April 1979) was a Swedish actress. Born Julia Carolina Carlsson, she worked as an actress from 1900s until the 1960s. She appeared in Swedish theatres like the Hippodromen in Malmö, the Malmö City Theatre i ...

as Hulda * Lau Lauritzen as Karlsson *

Kaj Hjelm Kaj may refer to: Places in Iran * Kaj, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari * Kaj, Hamadan * Kaj, Isfahan * Kaj, Qom * Kaj, Razavi Khorasan * Kaj, Sistan and Baluchestan Other uses * Kaj River, a river of Afghanistan * Kaj (name) * A fictional frog on the D ...

as Springpojken *

Magnus Kesster Magnus Kesster (29 July 1901 – 15 April 1975) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 80 films between 1937 and 1957. Selected filmography * ''The Pale Count'' (1937) * ''Happy Vestköping'' (1937) * ''A Cruise in the Albertina'' (1938 ...

as Taxichauffören *

Ingrid Luterkort Carola Ingrid Margareta Segerstedt Luterkort (''née'' Eklundh, 28 June 1910 – 3 August 2011) was a Swedish actress and stage director, whose professional career spanned from the 1930s until 2010. Born in Lund, Luterkort studied in the Royal D ...

as Kvinna *

Hanny Schedin Hanny may refer to: First name: * Hanny Kellner (1892-?), Austrian diver who competed in the 1912 Olympics * Hanny Michaelis (1922–2007), Dutch poet * Hanny Mohammed, a member of the Australian power metal band Black Majesty * Hanny Nahmias (born ...

as Kvinna *

Ruth Weijden Ruth Weijden (born Ruth Augusta Gustafsson; 20 July 1889 – 27 June 1956) was a Swedish stage and film actress.Kwiatkowski p.45 Selected filmography * ''The Saga of Gosta Berling'' (1924) * '' Sin'' (1928) * '' Artificial Svensson'' (1929) * ' ...

as Connies husjungfru * John Zacharias as Arkitekten *

Georg Årlin Georg Adolf Wilhelm Årlin (30 December 1916 – 27 June 1992) was a Swedish film actor who appeared in 50 films between 1940 and 1988. Born in Rödeby, a southern Sweden locality in Blekinge County's Karlskrona Municipality, Georg Årlin di ...

as Karlsson senior

References

Bibliography

* Krawc, Alfred. ''International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers in Film: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden (from the beginnings to 1984)''. Saur, 1986.

External links

* 1947 films Swedish comedy films 1947 comedy films 1940s Swedish-language films Films directed by Lau Lauritzen Jr. Remakes of Danish films Films shot in Stockholm 1940s Swedish films {{1940s-Sweden-film-stub